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the Democrats. It's a weekend review, and it starts right now. Let me ask you another question on this, and this is, I know the answer, but I think the audience needs to know this. The president was talking about how the Secret Service did an amazing job and making sure that this threat was neutralized. Do those guys get paychecks right now that we're at the White House Correspondents Center? Look, DHS is shut down. It's been shut down for more than two months. So they're not getting paid? Well, some of them are getting paid because the president is reallocating money from other parts of the budget. So some of them have gotten paychecks. But the Democrats are saying they don't want them paid. The Democrats have voted against. funding the Secret Service, funding the Department of Homeland Security, they voted against it 16 times. And by the way, there were Democrats at that event. That event, in fact, there were more Democrats in that room than there were Republicans, because it's mostly reporters, and they're almost all either Democrats or further left. And the Secret Service, look, when they stop this shooter, Any one of them could be killed. I don't know if you're a Democrat how you justify going and voting against paying for the Secret Service when they may have quite literally saved your life the couple days before. But I have no doubt that they would still vote against it, right? They would. They would vote against it. They would say, no, no, we're not going to fund them. Like, they're unified on that. I don't know what they're going to do next. I do know that they voted 16 times against it. I'll also point out. You know, you look at the litigation against the new ballroom that President Trump is building. And that litigation, a federal district judge enjoined construction of the ballroom ordered that it be halted. And here was his reasoning. I want you to listen to it because it's absurd on its face. Quote. The fact that the ballroom is planned to include security features such as bulletproof windows and a drone-proof roof does not bring the structure within the scope of the national security exception. While these features may well be beneficial, defendants have not provided any national security justification for why these features must be installed immediately. such that they should be excluded from the scope of the injunction. Now, I'm going to give you the technical legal definition of that segment of the district court's ruling. That is stupid. It is stupid on its face. And now, thankfully, that injunction was stayed by the court of the field, so it's not in effect. But the federal district judge was saying, why, I see no national security justification three times. Wow. In about a year, we have seen President Trump attempted a year and a half, attempted to be assassinated. And yet the judge is saying, look, if it were in the White House ballroom, if you had the security of the White House, that would be a much safer place to minimize these kinds of threats. And sadly, I think the odds are high. This is not the last.

attempted assassination of President Trump. There are leftists out there who are hearing Hakeem Jeffries war all the time everywhere. They're hearing Democrat after Democrat after Democrat using language that is not even a dog whistle. It's not even a coded call to violence. Their lunatic supporters know exactly what they're saying. You know, you go back to the ballroom and the politics of this. By the way, it was made private funds came in to pay for this as well. And there was Democrats are obsessed with this ballroom. They don't want it to happen because Donald Trump's the one doing it. And the other thing I think it was interesting is the President said in his interview on 60 Minutes that this has been something that the Secret Service and the military have been saying for like basically the last 100 years, we need this because it's a way to have events in a safe manner. You look at the hotel where the White House Correspondence Center was last night. I've gone to countless events there. I know you have. I mean, how many events do you think you've been to that thing in your political lifetime? Like almost every event is there because it's one of the bigger closest place. And the nickname that... pretty much everyone in politics calls it is the Hinkley Hilton because it is the hotel where John Hinkley shot President Reagan. And it's just, I mean, you say, oh, we've got an event. It is Hinkley Hilton. That's just, that's just what they call it. Yeah. I mean, and it, and this goes back to the Secret Services obsession with safety is. We do the best we can. We have all this security. It's still a hotel. This guy was able to check in apparently on Friday. It still operates like a hotel. We're rushing people out the back. I had friends at Fox News that were rushed through the back of the hotel through the kitchen. to try to keep them safe after all this went down. And as you mentioned, the nickname of the hotel goes directly back to Ronald Reagan, which, again, if any of these Democrats are against having a ballroom, which, by the way, will benefit Democrats in the White House, there will be more Democrats in White House, I believe in our lifetimes. That's the way politics works. It will keep them safe as well, because I never want to see an American president assassinated. I don't care if you're a Republican or a Democrat, and this is the difference between the Democratic Party and the Republican. Party as Democrats call for this type of violence and assassinations and celebrate when people like Charlie Kirk get shot and we on the right say we don't want anyone to die because of their political beliefs even if they're against me. You are absolutely right. Violence is wrong, period. I do think this attempted assassination, it is the fruits of a corrupted... elite academic system. Where did this kid get radicalized? I think the odds are quite likely at Caltech being trained by leftists. And look, he wrote his manifesto. And I'm not interested in highlighting his deranged attacks on President Trump. But I actually do want to read a little bit of it because he put out...

a series of objections and rebuttals, and they show just how twisted the indoctrination is. So, he writes, objection one, as a Christian, you should turn the other cheek. By the way, this guy calls himself a Christian. He claims to be a Christian. Rebuttal, turning the other cheek is for when you yourself are oppressed. I'm not the person raped in a detention camp. I'm not the fisherman executed without a trial. I'm not a school kid blown up or a child starved or a teenage girl abused by the many criminals in this administration. turning the other cheek when someone else is oppressed is not Christian behavior. It is complicity in the oppressor's crimes. By the way, listen to that language. Complicity in the oppressors' crimes. That is Marxist language of oppressors and victims, and he is repeating what leftists have indoctrinated him in university. Here was his next. Objection two, this is not a convenient time for you to do this. Rebuttal. I need whoever thinks this way to take a couple of minutes and realize that the world isn't about them. Do you think that when I see someone raped or murdered or abused, I should walk on by because it would be inconvenient for people who aren't the victim? This is the best timing and chance of success I could come up with. Objection number three. You didn't get them all. So he believed he was going to kill President Trump, multiple members of the cabinet, but he recognized someone would live. The vice president, his speaker was there. His rebuttal got to start somewhere. This is the consequence of. consistent, radical indoctrination. An indoctrination that says that in Marxist ideology, the oppressor oppresses the victim and violence is justified in overthrowing the oppressor. This young man was taught that garbage. The young man who murdered the United Healthcare CEO was taught that garbage and the people purveying this poison. They are doing massive damage. The lunatic who tried to murder Brett Kavanaugh was taught that garbage. And when you teach people, violence is okay. And justified. And justified. Morally justified. You must act. By the way, this lunatic was not at all worried about all the children who were raped by human traffickers under the Democrats' open borders. Those crimes, he was not worried about the people murdered by illegal alien criminals and gangbangers released. Those murders don't concern them at all. It's kind of like the leftists who hate Israel and are constantly protesting.

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And Omar was also integral in covering up the Somali fraud in Minnesota. She was a beneficiary of it. She was elected by the fraudsters. The Somali voting base is her core base. Their money helped elect her. Their votes did elect her. And she and Tim Walz and the governor and Keith Ellison, the AG, they were all. absolutely involved in the cover-up. They had every incentive. It was corrupt. And we're talking over $9 billion of taxpayer money swindled away. And so here's what Fox News reported about the raids. Federal authorities raided more than 20 locations, including child care facilities in Minneapolis on Tuesday. As part of a sweeping fraud investigation into largely Somali-owned businesses, sources confirmed to Fox News. Quote, today the FBI with federal state and local law enforcement is involved in court-authorized law enforcement activity as part of an ongoing fraud investigation in Department of Justice spokesperson said. Authorities executed 22 federal search warrants in Minnesota on Tuesday morning as part of the operation, which is not immigration related, sources said. The Raids Center on Federal Fraud investigations into largely Somalian businesses, including child care facilities that registered their daycare with the state, but were allegedly billing for care that was not provided. Sources told Fox News that two of the raids were conducted at the Quality Learing Center and Baby Halimno Child Care, both in Minneapolis. Vice President JD Vance addressed the raids post on X, writing the task force of the DOJ will be relentless in exposing these fraudsters wherever they may be hiding. Governor Tim Walz, this is, this is you want to talk about amazing chutzpah. Yeah. Said the raids were carried out by federal and state law enforcement after state agencies, quote. caught irregular behavior and reported it. Quote, if you commit fraud in Minnesota, you're going to get caught. And that's exactly what we saw today. We catch criminals when state and federal agencies share information, join investigations work, and securing justice depends upon it. Now, that truly is stunning because Walt's his entire governorship. has looked the other way on massive fraud, has refused to investigate it, has profited from it, has been elected by it, has taken campaign donations from it. The entire Democrat machinery was built on fraud, and now he's taking credit. That really is like the arsonists taking credit when the firefighters turn up and put out the fire. Yeah, it really is. And it's all because now he's not running for reelection, right? So he can just be like, oh, we're rooting out fraud and try to, I guess, rebuild his legacy. So maybe he can have a grand comeback one day. I don't know if that's going to work. There's one aspect of this, though, Senator, that excites me. And it's the fact that it's clear this is the beginning, not the end, based on what was said by the DOJ.

Like, this is the tip of the iceberg. We're going to the catalyst point. And then there's been directives at all states, including Republican-led states, to start looking at waste, fraud, and abuse. They're looking at California. I think you're going to see more people that are going to be indicted and more places that are going to be raided outside of Minnesota. That is exactly what the American people voted for, which was to get rid of waste, fraud, and abuse. That is exactly right. And I will point out also that... Other blue states are coming. California is coming. I have every reason to expect. And indeed, I've been told by senior officials in the administration, California is even worse than Minneapolis has been. And I want you also give a listen to Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins. and what she revealed about fraud and abuse concerning SNAP, concerning food stamps. Give a listen to Brooke Rollins. Yeah, this one's amazing, by the way, for context, this is about luxury cars and how many people on food stamps are driving like luxury cars. It's incredible. Sharing. Previously, no data was shared. We had no idea where the taxpayer dollars were spent. Just one red state, the recent dump of data, we found SNAP recipients had more than 2,000 Tesla owners, 200 Alpha Romeo owners, more than 144 that were receiving food stamps, were driving Porsches. Again, this is the data dumps we're getting because that we had, before we had no accountability on any of these programs. We now are requiring accountability. The blue states are suing us. They don't want to share the data. And can you imagine this was a red state where there is actually some taxpayer accountability? Imagine what's happening in the blue states if that's happening in the red states. I love that it's like a bunch of Tesla owners, Alpha Romeo, also Porsches, Mercedes, BMWs, and you're on food stamps. Like these were high-end luxury cars. Actually, Ben, it's even worse. So let me give some additional breakdown. So there are 306 land rovers. Those aren't cheap, by the way. There were 59 Maseratis. Yeah. That's a food stamp car. You know that. There were 11 Lamborghinis. There were three Ferraris. There were three Bentleys. These are people getting food stamps. driving a quarter million dollar or more like a Lamborghini could be a million dollar car depending on which one they had yeah that is an absolute abuse and if that happened in just one red state that handed over its data how much do you think it's happening in Minnesota? How much you think it's happening in New York? How much you think it is happening in Illinois? How much you think it's happening in California? The numbers are going to be stunning. Every time they went after and got somebody there for fraud recently, what were they doing? You saw them putting in a six-figure car that was being seized. And in some of the cases, there was like multiple six-figure cars that were being seized center and put on flatbeds. Like, yeah, they finally raided the house to this fraudster and look at what they had. Like, if you're on food stamps and you're driving a

Lambo or a Ferrari or a Maserati, like you are defrauding the U.S. government full stop. Amen. Hallelujah. And listen, I'm very glad the Trump administration is having some accountability. Let me read from what the New York Post wrote about this story about Ferrari drivers on food stamps. So it's entitled Ferrari Drivers on Food Stamps, How States Help Scammers Game Welfare. New York Post. What do a university professor, a celebrity barber, and a professional football player have in common? All three bought new six-figure luxury sports cars and lived lavish lifestyles while collecting food stamps. How on earth can these, quote, welfare recipients purchase high-end vehicles while remaining on the dole, thanks to a federal loophole known as broad-based categorical eligibility? The Clinton administration manufactured this loophole and the Obama administration supercharged it. Currently, 43 states in Washington, D.C. used broad-based categorical eligibility to bypass federal supplemental nutrition assistant program eligibility limits on income, assets, or both. The mechanism based on a federal law that was meant to minimize state's administrative cost is simple. State welfare agencies print up a brochure about welfare programs or set up an informal hotline and deem it a, quote, benefit under the temporary assistance for needy families program. Anyone who touches that pamphlet touches. or receives the phone number, is then treated as being, quote, categorically eligible for food stamps. Wow. Even millionaires. It's fraud by design that distributes benefits intended for the truly needy to otherwise ineligible individuals under the insidious goal of maximizing enrollment and dependency, and it works in almost every state. Researchers from the Foundation for Government Accountability examined de-identified date on food stamp enrollment in a single representative state. The data set matched recipients with jobs, addresses, car registrations, and more. And then they redacted the personal details before the researchers reviewed. That's what produced these outcomes. And by the way, it also... Thousands used Social Security numbers that federal databases could not verify. That included real numbers with mismatched names and birthdays, numbers issued years before the applicant's date of birth, numbers of people who died years ago, and numbers that don't even exist. All are clear signs. And they still got him. that both stolen identities and synthetic identities are being used to defraud the system. The BBCE loophole doesn't just expand enrollments, it creates the condition for outright criminals to flourish. When state agencies eliminate asset checks, they tear out the tripwires that cost fraudulent applications. This is, so a case in point, the wealthy professor, barber,

and professional athlete that FGA researchers spotted could be victims of identity fraud. Because SNAP intentionally allows anything to serve as proof of identity, even a library card. If states were cross-checking income and assets, those cases would be flagged as potential fraud. Thousands more, here's something else, thousands more food stamp recipients in the study enrolled using IP addresses traced to foreign countries, including China, Mexico, and Canada. More than 5,000 applicants in this state used foreign-based email addresses to apply, and countless others used disposable emails, the kind designed for identity theft and fishing. Look, the USDA puts improper food stamp payments at $10.4 billion a year with a B. That's more than one in every $10 spent on the program. And so now we're going after that fraud, and I'm here to say, yes, this is what I voted for. Holding the criminals accountable, and by the way, holding the Democrats accountable, who have enabled this theft of taxpayer fraud. You want to know what the Democrats stand for? They stand for Somali fraudsters stealing your tax money and sending it to al-Shabaab, Islamist, terrorist, and Somalia. They stand for thieves. driving bentley's and Lamborghinis and Ferraris who say they need food stamps and stealing your money that is if the and by the way look sometimes Heidi will say gosh you know that rhetoric sounds really harsh well Ben if the Democrats don't stand for that then I just want to ask you a question Why wouldn't Democrat governors do what the Trump administration has done? Why wouldn't they go after and cut them off? And they don't do it because ideologically they are in favor of it. If they just said, I mean, is there one Democrat in the country will say, all right, we're going to have a rule. Nobody on food stamps can have a Ferrari. Like if you have a Ferrari, sell your damn car. You can't have food teams. Yeah. And buy your food with that money you get for selling your car. But you don't get, if you got the money for a Ferrari, we ain't paying for your food. I got to say that sounds like common sense. And there's not a single Democrat governor in the country that's saying that. Amen to that. Don't forget we do this show Monday, Wednesday, Friday. Hit that subscribe or auto download button. Please share this podcast with your family and friends. Share it on your social media pages wherever you are on social media. And the senator, I will see you back here on Friday morning. As before, if you want to hear the rest of this conversation on this topic, you can go back and download the podcast from early this week to hear the entire thing.

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homeless people. They've got a scoring mechanism now. You get bonus points for certain things while being homeless in America. And then you get services, aka rewarded, based on your race and your sexual identity. Now, this is like English is a second language. Gets you two points. So just think of that as a jumper. If you're pregnant, that's a three-pointer. We give you more points if you're pregnant. child under five, you get three points. If you're a child under 18, you only get one point. So in other words, and if you're head of household and you're under 18, we give you bonus points, two points for that. There's an actual quota list of points you receive depending on how you describe yourself. And if you say that you know you're gay or lesbian or transgender, that's bonus points as well. So look, we talked a minute ago about the... the hierarchy of victim groups in the Democrat Party. It's a notion that's called intersectionality. And in the Democrat Party, being LGBT or being a racial minority is more privileged than simply being poor and being homeless. And let's talk. We're going to talk about Portland, Oregon, because Portland, Oregon is almost like a deranged faculty lounge experiment gone awry. Yeah. I'm going to read from an article in ProPublica. To be clear, ProPublica is not a right-wing outlet. It is a left-wing outlet. But here's what they described. Quote, as the city of Portland, Oregon clawed its way out of the pandemic, it faced a new set of crises. The city's homeless population was growing. Tents lined some city blocks. High-powered business associations held press conferences demanding the city remove homeless people and touted self-funded survey saying that without action, businesses and residents would flee the city. By late spring 2021, the city committed to a new strategy that then Mayor Ted Wheeler said would quote, reprioritize public health and safety among homeless Portlanders. ultimately allocating $1.3 billion by the end of 2024. Now, let's see what the results were. Although the city spent roughly $200,000 per homeless resident, now let's stop and think, 200 grand per homeless resident. You could house them and feed them. 200 grand is a lot of money. That's what they spent. What do you think it did? massively spending and saying we're prioritizing the safety of homeless people. What do you think it produced? I'm going to guess close to nothing because it's a government program and liberals are in charge. Sorry, call me a cynic. You're not cynical enough. Nothing would be better. Close to nothing would be better. The death rate among homeless people in Portland quadrupled went up 400%. The death rate. went up from 113 in 2019 to more than 450 in 2023. Incredible. So when liberals say, we are going to focus on the homeless, if you're homeless, God help you, because at least in Portland, what that meant was the death rate quadruple. Now, they also put in place, as you referenced.

an elaborate point system. I mean, and this is not a joke. Like, it's literally, and they even tell you like, hey, you can't get double points if you get points in one category compared to another category. So if you're pregnant and under 18, that's bonus points. But only if you haven't already gotten points for being pregnant on another piece of paper for another point system. It's just, it's unbelievable how well organized it is. So look, and I'll say actually, pregnant makes some sense. Prioritizing pregnant women, that has a reasonable basis. You are more vulnerable. But English is a second language. That was worth two points. Head of a household under 18. That was worth two points. Interest in LGBTQ services. That was worth one point. Just interest. So just make sure you say, I think I've thought about being gay or transgender or a lesbian and then you get one bonus point. So total disabilities impacting entire household ability to secure housing. I don't even know what that means, but it's worth three points. Yeah, there you go. Interest in culturally specific services. That's two points. Again, I don't know what that means. By the way, comparing that, just so you understand how woke this is, if you are over the age of 55, 55 plus, which is a higher vulnerable category, I think we can all agree on that for homelessness, you get two points for that. You get the same number of points. If you're interested in culturally specific services, you can just catch up to somebody that's 55, 60, 70, 80, 85, 90 years old. Yeah. And also. Worth two points as being a domestic violence survivor. Now, that actually is rational and makes sense that you would prioritize domestic violence survivors. But in the Portland world, interest in a culturally specific service is equally prioritized to being a domestic violence survivor. Now, how about this? What do you think being poor is? Like having, let's say something crazy. zero income. Like if you're trying to help homeless people, having zero income. You would think that would be one of the top scoring things on a sheet because that would get you obviously to be homeless. So you would think like that would be worse something, right? Guess well? It's not. One point. One point. One point. And if you're homeless for a year or more, you only get one point. But if you are currently homeless, this is what's weird. Currently homeless gets you two points. Wouldn't that also mean you get one point for being homeless for like 12 months or more or no income? I don't know. This is DEI on a whole other level of stupid. Look, here's what they said they've done. So Malta County, Oregon, which is home of Deep Blue Portland, where deaths of homeless people quadrupled between 2019 and 2023. The county's screening tool for housing services is designed, and this is a quote from the county, to quote, prioritize BIPAC households, LGBTQIA2S plus, and people with disabilities. Yes. Again, this is not, they're spending 200 grand per homeless person.

With 200 grand. You can buy somebody a house. You could buy someone a house. But that would make too much sense. You could pay rent for a long time. You could get someone a hotel room. You could feed them. You could get the medical care. And yet the death rate quadrupled because they were more interested in LGBTQ LMNOP, like the number of letters there. I can't even. It reminds me that crazy Canadian. who got up and gave this incredibly long stream that I pretty sure was her Wi-Fi password. But they're more interested in their woke policies than they are actually in helping someone who needs help. And that's tragic. You mentioned 200,000 a person, just to put it in perspective with everything we know, you've got to ask yourself the question how much fraud's involved here. Massive, massive. Yeah. It's hard to spend that much money. 200,000. It's going to be interesting to watch. Somebody's driving a Ferrari. Somebody's driving a Lamborghini. Yeah. You're absolutely right about that one. Don't forget we do this show Monday, Wednesday, Friday. Hit that subscribe. Auto download button. You've been listening to Vertic with Ted Cruz. We will see you on the podcast this week and back on this radio station next weekend. As always, thank you for listening to Verdict with Senator Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with you. Don't forget to download my podcast. And you can listen to my podcast every other day you're not listening to Verdict or each day when you listen to verdict afterwards. I'd love to have you as a listener to, again, the Ben Ferguson podcast. And we will see you back here on Monday morning. When it comes to what your family eats and drinks, you know your choices matter. You're the expert because you know what fits your life. And getting it right starts with good information. That's why America's beverage companies are sharing more information about our ingredients at good to know facts.org. No spin, no judgments, just the facts straight from the experts for more than 140 beverage ingredients. Visit good to know facts.org. Online education is convenient, but sometimes it can be lonely. Sometimes the extra help you need can only come from someone else. At American Public University, they make online education personalized, affordable, and memorable. With 24-7 mental health support available in multiple languages, access to career coaches who are industry professionals and lifelong career services, you'll never feel alone on your path to success. APU, digital by nature, human by design. Learn more at APU.APUS.edu.edu. Vital doesn't always mean visible. Across America, advanced technology is working behind the scenes, strengthening our nation. It protects our war fighters, delivers mission-ready intelligence, advances life-saving healthcare, and defends the critical infrastructure that keeps our country moving. At GDIT, we power the systems that help America operate, connect, and stay secure. Every hour, every mission, every day. GDIT, behind America's invisible advantage.

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